Number of letters in "Pazz & Jop," not counting the ampersand: 7
As you're probably aware, the Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop results are out, and the blogosphere is abuzz with the annual post-game festivities. The question isn't, "Are we obsessives," but rather, "How navel-gazingly obsessive can we get?"
In the attempt to answer that qusetion, I decided to quantify my own navel gazing. (My ballot, should you care, can be found here. And thus I leave you with this, my first-ever Personal Pazz & Jop Index.
Number of my album choices ranking in the top 100: 1
Number of my singles choices ranking in the top 100: 0
Highest that one of my album choices ranked: 41
Junior Boys, Last Exit
Next highest album rank: 162
Ricardo Villalobos,, The Au Harem D'Archimede
Highest that one of my singles choices ranked: 135
Feist, "Mushaboom"
Next highest single rank: 164
Alter Ego, "Rocker"
Maximum number of critics voting for an album in my top 10 albums list, excluding me: 27
Next highest number: 6
Maximum number of critics voting for a single in my top 10 singles list, excluding me: 5
Next highest number: 3
Number of albums in my top 10 list for which I was the only voter: 3
Number of singles in my top 10 list for which I was the only voter: 7
Dominance of German artists among my top 10 albums, expressed as a percentage: 70
Dominance of US artists among my top 10 albums, expressed as a percentage: 10
Dominance of German artists among my top 10 singles, expressed as a percentage: 30 (counting remixers)
Number of countries represented in my top 10 albums list, including both labels and artists: 4
Number of countries represented in my top 10 singles list, including labels, artists and remixers: 6
Number of female artists represented in my combined lists: 3
Number of non-white, non-Latino artists represented in my combined lists: 2
Percentage of solo artists among my combined lists, including solo remixers of solo artists: 60
Percentage of singles in my top 10 list that are remixes: 30
Percentage of instrumental tracks among my top 10 singles: 40
Percentage of primarily instrumental albums among my top 10 albums: 50
Number of records in my ballot to which P&J inexplicably added the word "Import" (considering that a majority of my records were on "import" labels): 2
Number of records in my ballot for which the original import label was swapped out for a later import label: 1
Alter Ego's "Rocker," originally released on Klang, attributed to Skint
Number of albums listed with the incorrect CD art: 1
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band's Dust Sucker, for Le Dust Sucker's self-titled album
Number of albums for which I did not recognize the name of a single critic, besides me, who voted for it: 1
Maximum number of album votes I shared with another individual critic: 3
Geeta Dyal and Andy Kellman each matched my votes on three recordings, respectively
Comments
Number of accents missing from listing of "Thé au Harem d'Archimède": 2
Posted by: Andy K | February 10, 2005 06:31 AM
haha. awesome, philip.
Posted by: yancey | February 10, 2005 07:21 AM
also, umm, you were ranked 730 out of 791 on the Critical Alignment thing. Ya, i looked at ilx.
Posted by: daphne | February 10, 2005 09:45 AM
This year's P&J is a conservative reflection of conservative times. The average writer who balloted could do nothing but wrap themselves in the folds of nostalgia (rock), safety (pop) and talk radio (rap). Keep thinking outside the police state Phil.
Posted by: Tomas Palermo | February 16, 2005 09:51 PM
keep gazing, Philip.
Posted by: Aschka | February 24, 2005 04:38 AM